The Seba library treats Shay in 4 passages, across 4 authors (including Najavits, Lisa M., Herman, Judith Lewis, Martha C. Nussbaum).
Shay, J. (1994). Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. New York: Simon & Schuster.
This bibliographic citation identifies Shay’s primary contribution to the field — the argument that Homeric epic illuminates the phenomenology of combat-induced PTSD and moral injury.
, Seeking Safety: A Treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse, 2002thesis
J. Shay, “Fluoxetine Reduces Explosiveness and Elevates Mood of Vietnam Combat Veterans with PTSD,” Journal of Traumatic Stress 5 (1992), in press
Herman cites Shay’s empirical pharmacological research as evidence for psychopharmacological intervention in PTSD, situating him as both clinician and researcher within the trauma treatment literature.
, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, 1992supporting
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Nussbaum acknowledges Jonathan Shay as an intellectual interlocutor on the subject of postcombat stress syndrome in the context of her analysis of Stoic and Hellenistic ethics, linking his clinical work to classical philosophical discussions of emotion.
, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, 1994supporting
Kalsched, D. (1991) “The Limits of Desire and the Desire for Limits in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice,” in F. Halligan and J. Shay (eds) Fires of Desire: Erotic Energies and the Spiritual Quest, New York: Crossroads Press.
Shay appears here as co-editor of a volume on erotic energies and spiritual psychology, positioning the name within a Jungian and depth-psychological editorial context distinct from the combat-trauma usage.
, The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit, 1996aside